Benjamin Hornigold

Benjamin Hornigold’s Story Role

Hornigold starts the game as a steadying presence in Nassau, a pirate elder statesman who genuinely believes the Republic can become something lasting. That idealism curdles into disillusionment. Watching Nassau spiral into disease, disorder, and infighting, he quietly accepts Woodes Rogers’ royal pardon and turns pirate hunter, joining the Templar Order in the process. The betrayal lands hard precisely because the friendship with Kenway felt real. His final words to Kenway, urging him to see the wisdom in the Templars’ vision of order, linger long after the assassination is done, planting a seed that shapes Edward’s eventual path toward the Assassin Brotherhood.

Who Voices Benjamin Hornigold in Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced?

English voice actor Ed Stoppard brings Hornigold to life, delivering the character’s measured authority and quiet moral collapse with precision. Stoppard is a British stage and screen actor whose credits include King Philip IV of France in History Channel’s Knightfall and roles in The Musketeers and The Frankenstein Chronicles. In the Japanese dub, Satoshi Hino takes on the role. Hino is one of Japan’s most in-demand voice actors, widely recognized for voicing Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Ainz Ooal Gown in Overlord.